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Cognizant and Rubrik have launched a Business Resilience as a Service (BRaaS) platform that merges Rubrik’s cyber‑resilience technology with Cognizant’s delivery expertise. The service addresses modern threats such as ransomware, cloud‑infrastructure attacks, and AI‑driven disruptions by providing unified data protection, configuration validation, and automated recovery across hybrid environments. BRaaS delivers pre‑validated, malware‑free recovery points, orchestrated runbooks, and expert crisis support, promising faster cyber‑recovery time objectives and reduced downtime. The model shifts resilience from a reactive backup function to a scalable, as‑a‑service capability aligned with operational‑expense economics.
Europe’s crypto boom is accelerating as the EU’s MiCA framework standardizes digital‑asset rules, prompting banks, fintechs and payment processors to embed cryptocurrencies into core services. In the UK, the FCA’s 2025 consultation papers CP25/25 and CP25/14 aim to align crypto...
Microsoft released a service alert confirming that the WinSqlite3.dll library, a core Windows component, was mistakenly flagged by third‑party security tools as vulnerable to CVE‑2025‑6965. The false‑positive affected Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2012‑2025 systems for several months. Microsoft updated...
Listen Labs, a San Francisco AI startup, raised $69 million in a Series B round, pushing its valuation above $500 million. The company’s automated interview platform has conducted over one million AI‑led customer interviews for brands such as Microsoft, Sweetgreen and Perplexity. By...
Chainalysis estimates crypto‑related scam losses could top $17 billion in 2025, up from $12 billion in 2024. The average fraudulent payment jumped from $782 to $2,764, while impersonation scams exploded 1,400% year‑over‑year. AI‑enabled operations proved 4.5 times more profitable, generating $3.2 million per...
A recent cross‑sectional study surveyed 500 Saudi pharmacy and medical students to gauge their understanding of pharmacovigilance (PV). Only 35% demonstrated sufficient knowledge of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting, revealing significant curriculum gaps. The researchers recommend integrating mandatory PV modules...
Deutsche Telekom will integrate Elevenlabs’ AI voice agents into its customer service channels, allowing callers to interact with realistic synthetic voices 24/7 via the MeinMagenta app and phone. The rollout follows a pilot that lets Magenta customers generate up to...
AI-driven workflows are being embedded directly into applications, creating testing challenges due to the nondeterministic nature of large language models (LLMs). Parasoft’s experience shows that exact‑match verification fails, driving up costs when tests repeatedly call external LLM APIs. Teams can...
A B2B SaaS firm faced a high‑stakes transition when a top account manager responsible for millions in ARR announced their departure. The company considered a commission‑only “audition” hire, but the post warns that treating account management like sales can erode...
An IETF draft proposes standard HTTP RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit headers to inform clients about quota and window constraints, helping avoid 429 errors. The draft originally assumes quota‑reset algorithms, but the article argues that headers can work with any rate‑limit strategy,...
A recent preclinical study demonstrates that intermittent hypobaric pressure (IHP) exposure can mitigate age‑related bone loss and reverse cellular aging markers. Mice subjected to 2‑hour hypobaric cycles three times a week showed a 12% increase in bone mineral density and...
A new simulation from the University of Chicago and JPL estimates Jupiter’s oxygen inventory at about 1.5 times that of the Sun. The model uniquely integrates 1‑D chemical kinetics with 2‑D hydrodynamic transport, producing the most comprehensive atmospheric profile to...
Astronomers using Subaru's Hyper Suprime‑Cam have mapped faint main‑sequence stars far beyond the nominal tidal radius of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The new data reveal an extended stellar structure along both the major and minor axes, with the minor‑axis...
Ryan, the world’s largest dedicated business‑tax services and software firm, announced a minority equity investment from Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions. The deal adds Neuberger to existing shareholders Onex Partners and Ares Private Equity, creating a broader strategic investor base. The...
West Midlands Police used Microsoft Copilot, producing a fabricated record of a West Ham vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match, which underpinned a ban on Maccabi fans for a Villa‑Maccabi game. The chief constable initially denied any AI use, blaming Google...
ImmunityBio announced that its lymphocyte‑stimulating agent Anktiva, combined with checkpoint inhibitors, restored immune cells and produced objective responses in a non‑small‑cell lung cancer (NSCLC) study. The data suggest the combination could enhance the efficacy of existing immunotherapies. Meanwhile, Glaukos reported...
Ripple hovers around the $2.00 level as the market awaits clarity from the CLARITY Act, while GeeFi’s decentralized finance platform is accelerating its fundraising. The presale has surpassed $2.6 million, with Phase 3 90% complete and only 3 million $GEE tokens left at...
Google’s Kaggle platform has launched Community Benchmarks, a new feature that enables data scientists to create, run, and share custom evaluation tasks for AI models. Users can define individual tasks, combine them into benchmarks, and generate leaderboards that compare model...
BridgeWise announced a partnership with Ultumus to broaden its FundWise ETF intelligence, adding over 800 European funds and more than 3,000 global ETFs to its existing coverage of 12,000 funds. Ultumus will supply a cloud‑native, normalized data infrastructure covering holdings,...
Researchers from Seoul National University and Drexel University have created a stretchable OLED that can be elongated 1.6 times its original size while preserving most of its brightness. The device combines a phosphorescent exciplex‑assisted polymer layer (ExciPh) with transparent, highly...
Rice University researchers unveiled CLASSIC, a high‑throughput platform that couples long‑ and short‑read sequencing to generate millions of genetic‑circuit designs in human cells. By pairing this massive library with machine‑learning models, the team demonstrated the first AI‑driven design of functional...
Assail, Inc. emerged from stealth with Ares, an autonomous AI platform that conducts continuous, machine‑speed penetration testing of APIs, web and mobile applications. The company closed a $250,000 pre‑seed round led by Squared Circle Ventures, received $100,000 in AWS credits,...
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced it will phase out operations at its laboratory products facility in Asheville, North Carolina, laying off 421 workers. The shutdown is slated to be completed by the end of 2026, ending the site’s production of consumables...
President Trump has thrown his support behind two credit‑card reform initiatives: a temporary 10% interest‑rate cap and the long‑standing Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA). The move pits a coalition of merchants, who say card fees have surged 70% to $187.2 billion...
PayPal has evolved from a niche online checkout tool into a global e‑wallet that powers everything from retail purchases to gaming deposits. Its early focus on secure, password‑protected transactions gave consumers confidence during the e‑commerce boom, while continuous feature additions—such...
Gresham House Ventures has made a £4.5 million follow‑on investment in ARKK, the AI‑driven financial automation platform for CFOs. The capital will fund product expansion to meet new regulatory reporting demands, improve customer experience, and scale sales and marketing. ARKK’s technology...
Bluspark Global, a U.S. shipping‑tech firm behind the Bluvoyix platform, left its API and customer data exposed to the public internet. Researchers discovered unauthenticated endpoints, plaintext passwords, and the ability to create admin accounts, granting access to decades‑old shipment records....
Wint Wealth, a SEBI‑registered online bond platform, secured INR 250 crore ($27 million) in Series B financing led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. The round also included existing backers 3one4 Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Arkam Ventures and Rainmatter. The capital will fund...
Exegy, a leading provider of high‑performance market data and trading technology, announced the acquisition of NovaSparks Inc., a specialist in FPGA‑enabled real‑time market data normalization and distribution. The deal integrates NovaSparks’ low‑latency data processing platform into Exegy’s existing feed handling...
Researchers funded by the European Research Council are studying how fire behaves in microgravity after a historic Apollo 1 disaster highlighted the danger of pure‑oxygen cabins. In weightless conditions flames form a spherical ball that spreads heat uniformly, challenging traditional suppression...
West Midlands Police admitted that Microsoft Copilot fabricated a non‑existent football match between West Ham and Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was then embedded in an intelligence report. The erroneous detail prompted the ban of Israeli supporters at a subsequent game....
In operational technology (OT) environments, a green check on a backup dashboard is often mistaken for a guarantee of recoverability, yet legacy systems and custom hardware make true restoration far more complex. Without continuous testing, backups can hide data corruption,...
Jobrapido, a global recruitment‑marketing platform, partnered with DataDome to combat bot‑driven traffic that was inflating costs and skewing performance metrics. The AI‑powered solution filtered out roughly 15% of invalid visits, giving the company a clean, real‑time view of genuine user...
VideoProc launched an AI‑driven enhancement suite that preprocesses and post‑processes video, audio, and images for creators using traditional NLEs such as Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. The workflow isolates heavy AI tasks from the editing timeline, offering automated denoising, deblurring,...
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute, HKUST and Koç University have created 18 µm hydrogel cilia that beat at 5‑40 Hz when driven by a 1.5 V electric field. Using two‑photon polymerization, they printed arrays of hundreds of these microactuators on a flexible substrate...
Microsoft announced a joint operation with international law enforcement to dismantle RedVDS, a cybercrime‑as‑a‑service platform that provides disposable Windows VMs for phishing, BEC and financial fraud. Launched in 2019, RedVDS charged as little as $24 per month and is tied...
ThinkOrbital, a Boulder‑based space‑infrastructure startup, closed an undisclosed seed round led by TFX Capital to accelerate its in‑space X‑ray inspection and autonomous construction technologies. The company will conduct two demonstration missions in 2026—one launching an X‑ray detector on an Argo...
The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), backed by President Trump, would cap credit‑card APRs and force merchant‑selected routing, slashing interchange fees that fund rewards and specialized products. Military‑serving banks and credit unions warn the bill will tighten credit, eliminate low‑interest...
Researchers at TU Wien have identified an emergent topological semimetal phase in the quantum‑critical material CeRu₄Sn₆, observed at temperatures just above absolute zero. The discovery shows that topological states can exist even when the conventional particle‑like description of electrons fails, as...
A hacker using the alias CamelliaBtw posted on DarkForums claiming a full breach of Russia’s Max Messenger, exfiltrating roughly 142 GB of data that includes 15.4 million user records, authentication tokens, passwords, communication metadata, source code, and internal infrastructure assets. The alleged...
MediaMint, an Agentic Growth Services firm, has entered a global partnership with Spotify to deliver end‑to‑end advertiser acquisition, onboarding, and performance support across audio, video and display. The collaboration spans Spotify’s major markets—North America, EMEA, LATAM and JAPAC—and will be...
AppOmni, a SaaS security platform vendor, has disclosed a critical vulnerability in ServiceNow identified as CVE‑2025‑12420, nicknamed BodySnatcher. The flaw enables an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate any ServiceNow user and spawn a malicious AI agent within the platform. Because ServiceNow...
Wells Fargo posted a $5.4 billion fourth‑quarter profit, 5.5% higher than a year earlier, and lifted full‑year 2025 net income to $21.3 billion, up 7%. The bank lifted its 2026 net interest income target to $50 billion, a 5% increase, after shedding a...
Keytomic unveiled an AI‑powered all‑in‑one SEO platform that simultaneously optimizes for Google and leading large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The solution bundles technical audits, AI‑driven content creation, and a unique visibility tracker into a workflow that...
A team of planetary scientists analyzed six ALMA thermal images from 2012 to establish Callisto’s surface temperature at roughly 133 K and refine regolith composition across its varied terrains. By comparing these data with NASA’s Galileo measurements, they created a baseline...
Crypto’s institutional engagement is maturing, even as recent price swings spark headlines. Eric Peterson of Kraken notes that liquidity and exchange reliability have held, indicating digital assets behave like a mature asset class within broader market cycles. He warns regulators still...
Astronomers from Nanjing University re‑examined FAST Data Releases 1‑23 and uncovered 19 previously undetected pulsars, expanding the telescope's catalog beyond the thousand already known. The new objects lie within 5,500‑54,700 light‑years, with spin periods from 0.03 to 5.54 seconds, and include...
Flexxbotics announced a free, full‑feature download of its software‑defined automation (SDA) platform, delivering a production‑ready runtime, low‑code HMI, developer studio, and open API without trial limits. The solution supports fault‑tolerant, regulatory‑compliant operations across more than 1,000 equipment models using many‑to‑many...
Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido announced a $60 million Series B round that lifts its valuation to $1 billion, making it Europe’s fastest‑growing cyber‑security unicorn in just three years. The funding, led by DST Global with participation from PSG Equity and others, follows a year...
